(DCNF)—President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of dozens of United Nations organizations, conventions and treaties, including two that are key to the international climate hoax – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Does this mean that the climate hoax is over?
The U.N. formed the IPCC in the late 1980s as an organization to research and recommend policies to prevent the presumed adverse effects of greenhouse gas emissions on the climate. It quickly became the oracle of all things climate related. It issued periodic, highly anticipated and widely publicized reports on climate. In 1995, it began holding annual climate conferences, the 30th and most recent one being held in Brazil in November.
The first IPCC report, hurriedly released in 1990, presumed to establish a scientific basis for apocalyptic climate alarmism. It was used as a basis for the UNFCCC, which was the first climate treaty and became the parent treaty of the subsequent treaties known as the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the 2015 Paris Climate Accords. The UNFCCC is important because it is the framework for global emissions cuts, particularly by rich countries.
By pulling the U.S. out of the IPCC and the UNFCCC, Trump has signaled that the U.S. will no longer be involved in climate alarmism on an international level. Recall that last September during his speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Trump spent more than 10 minutes excoriating the climate hoax. “The carbon footprint is a hoax, made up by people with evil intentions, and they’re heading down a path of total destruction,” he stated.
Trump has also been acting at home to end the hoax. The EPA is expected in January or February to rescind the 2009 Obama EPA’s “endangerment finding” for greenhouse gases. This move would officially reverse the alleged scientific basis for emissions cuts such that EPA could not regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
These are and will be monumental achievements. The only downside is that they are not permanent and, therefore, the climate hoax is not yet dead. If Republicans fail to win the White House in 2028, a Democrat president will likely race to rejoin the IPCC and UNFCCC and possibly revive the endangerment finding.
What needs to be done?
Congress should pass a law before Trump leaves office barring the U.S. from spending any money related to international climate efforts without the express authorization of Congress. This would keep the U.S. out of groups like the IPCC. This law should also bar funding for implementation of executive agreements, like the Paris Climate Accord.
President Barack Obama knew the Republican-controlled Senate would not ratify the Paris Climate Accord as a treaty, so he signed it as an executive agreement that did not require ratification. There should be no funding for efforts that dodge the Constitution.
The Senate should also pass a resolution affirming Trump’s withdrawal from the UNFCCC. While Trump likely has authority to unilaterally pull the U.S. out of treaties, it can’t hurt to have the Senate concur in this. Unless the Senate does this, a President Gavin Newsom, for example, would likely unilaterally decide that Trump had no authority to pull out of the UNFCCC. President Newsom would then resume U.S. participation as if it had never exited the treaty.
The final task concerns the EPA’s endangerment finding. The coming rescission of the endangerment finding will certainly be litigated all the way to the Supreme Court. Given the present make-up of the Court, Trump should prevail 6-3 since Congress never authorized EPA to regulate greenhouse gases in the first place.
But here’s the problem. Litigation is unpredictable. When would SCOTUS get the case? Who will be President? What will Congress look like? What could a Democrat Congress do? Recall that Obama issued his Clean Power Plan in 2015 and it was stayed by SCOTUS in 2016. But the litigation didn’t end until 2022 in the West Virginia v. EPA decision. Because the litigation circumvented the endangerment finding, the Biden EPA just went back to the drawing board and issued a new regulation that the Trump EPA is now in the process of repealing. That repeal will also be litigated. You get the picture.
The bottom line is that the climate hoax is far from over. If nothing else, there is about $500 billion worth of Green New Scam spending that was not able to be cut by the One Big Beautiful Bill. Climate activists and rent-seekers have spent almost 40 years growing the climate hoax. They are not just going to let Trump consign it to oblivion by Executive order.
Steve Milloy is a biostatistician and lawyer. He posts on X at @JunkScience.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
